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> Dial keys. Not IPs. > It's a simple idea really, and it's the right abstraction for the future of the internet. IP addresses can break, without warning, and
by dotancohen 4mo ago
> Dial keys. Not IPs.
> It's a simple idea really, and it's the right abstraction for the future of the internet. IP addresses can break, without warning, and it's outside of your device's control. Keys, however, are created & controlled by you. They stay the same as your device moves, and are yours to throw away, or not. IP addresses can be private and inaccessible behind firewalls, but with iroh your device can be securely addressable no matter where it is.
To me that just sounds like a reimplementation of DNS. Maybe decentralised and maybe free and maybe not monomeric, but broadly the same.
- Folcon 4mo agoThe biggest difference that I can see is that keys are not making any claims about ownership, there's no global registry and it's p2p, which is a big upside
- bellowsgulch 4mo agoNo idea why this is downvoted, it's exactly the pitch for DNS. Others and I are asking the same question. There's no value proposition here.
- comboy 4mo agoDifferent network layer, no centralization, no authorities, DNS has nothing to do with making p2p connections, it's like the ballpark is not even in the same country
- dotancohen 4mo agoSo it differs in implementation details, not in concept.
- comboy 4mo agoIf you think that your phone number is equivalent to your home address then yes.
- dotancohen 4mo agoFor the singular purpose of "I need to transfer a message to this person and I don't care what the latency is", then sure. That's how my bank treats them.
- bellowsgulch 4mo agoBullshit, someone has to be an authority, even if it's p2p, then every connection is an authority.
- ben-schaaf 4mo agoDNS doesn't work with constantly changing IPs, like you have on mobile networks. DNS also doesn't help when the IP is behind a NAT. So I really don't see how the two are similar at all.
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